[Rarebooks] FS: Important SIGNED George Bernard Shaw Manuscript

[Charles Agvent]

One of MANY fine GEORGE BERNARD SHAW items (letters, manuscripts, signed 
books, photographs, etc.) in our inventory which can be seen at 
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SHAW, George Bernard. TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (TMS): GENERAL MAURICE'S 
ALLEGED BREACH OF DISCIPLINE. To the Editor of The Daily Chronicle. A 
fine 3-1/2-page typed manuscript on green paper SIGNED at the conclusion 
"G. Bernard Shaw" and with several holograph corrections by Shaw tipped 
to quarto-sized pages bound in marbled boards and blue morocco spine 
with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Robert Donald of THE DAILY CHRONICLE dated 
21 May 1918 declining publication of Shaw's letter because General 
Maurice "is terribly afraid of being penalised" and "is desperately 
anxious to maintain an ultra-correct attitude." A brief excerpt from 
Shaw's manuscript: "The generals who were accused last year of writing 
ridiculous letters may be accused this year of taking bribes, of taking 
morphia, of taking six wives, of taking holidays during offensives, of 
taking to their heels, of taking fire by spontaneous combustion and 
being ignominously extinguished by the killfires of their chauffeurs, 
or, worse still, of any of these subtler deviations from the path of 
honor and duty which might conceivably be made by a good man under the 
strain of war." In April 1918 Prime Minister David Lloyd George told 
Parliament that the British Army in France was considerably stronger 
than it had been a year ago. Maurice, whose job it was to keep accurate 
figures of British military strength, knew that Lloyd George gave 
misleading information, and not receiving any satisfaction by going 
through official channels, published a letter in the papers exposing 
Lloyd George's lies. As a result Maurice was retired from the British 
Army. With the bookplate of Harold Ackert on the front pastedown. Very 
Good in an attractive Very Good binding. (#013122)        $3,500.00

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